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HIS ISLAND PRINCESS,
FROM THE NOTES OF RUPERT DE LA TOUCHE
(1829).
BY
W. CLARK RUSSELL,
(Author of "The Wreck of the Graezior.“ "Overdue." &c.)
SYNOPOB OF INSTALMENT I. Rupert de la Touche in second mate ou one of a Best of convict ips, leaving England for a distant con tay. Among the women prisoners is a you and beutiful girl, but what her wame in, or fer what he is being aidel, no one shows. When only a few days at diately dives after her, but along remo and takuan on board again she dies almost i uge, and is buried
this girl jumps overboard, and la Touch me
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CHAPTER II.
THE CONVICTH GHOST.
Whilst I stood viewing the moonlighted pic- ture, and sometimes-I must annfoss it-think- ing of the beautiful young wniknown girl whoso Form-lost to life, to love, to the world for ever --was floating deep down under at glaming chouy surface ont yonder, I was startled by a long sustained cream which took me with a run to the break of the prop. I can compare it to nothing better than the melancholy cry it night of the jackall on the banks of the river Hooghly as oft. T-tave heard the beasts whilst lying in that sobbing running river. I huilod
the sentry.
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"What was that cry F ̈ "It me from one of the women in the 'twoenducks, sir.” answered the marine, who was stationed at the hatchway.
Scarce had he spoken when the cry, was repeated.
It sounded as though it proceeded from a person in distross rather than in terror; or in step, or partly unconscious rather than wide awake.
I went to the halch and looked down. After a pause, during which I hand, some talking be- low, a female came and stool under the hate. and looked up.
I said. "Who's that?"
Mrs. Champion," says, she,
She was the mutron who had charge of the people.
What noise was that?” says L.
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tied, and passed where she lay, looking at her, and gliding up the stops through the hatchway She shrieked when she saw It, coming, and shrieked again as it passed with its eyes upon
hee.
· Did others see it?"
No, sir, but there's not one but swears by it." The sentry at the hatch did not see the spectre pass when it emerged," said I. "Init be sow it some time afterwards moving in a floating way betwixt the larricado and the bulwark, ami when he spoke to it, it vanished overlmard."
It is strange," said she, looking a little pato and somewhat awestruck. I hope this may not siguity misfortune to the ship. Ghosts never appear but on errands of trouble.
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spite of much blustering and "dammes," and turning of quids, and a general demeanour of who's afraid?" the mon, for many nights fol lowing the incident I have related, went aloft with extreme circumspection; no mau ever proved himself in a bery to show the roul However, sail was, maile and taken in as the owl arose, the ship's business carried on, and so in this way all went well.
Our program hud hos very slow: how slow you shall judge when I tell you that wo did not arrive in Table Bay until the 13th October...you will remember that we sailed from the Mother Bank at daybreak on May 13th. But that I am about to resed happened long before our arrival at Table Bay.
ho then left me, looking very thoughtful, Wo were south of the equator, the pundial This night the first watch from sight to shot wine degrees. It was a quiet, moonless twelve cane round to my hands. It was dark evening, and a warm breeze was gushing steadily without the moon, and the stars were so ont of the southeast; we moved onwards with | eclipsed by the lurry of the send that you sav eur yards braced well forward, everything set, not by their light. The windward glares of the sud all the ships floating upon the sea like so breaking hours of seas were frequent, and any icebergs in the starlight. It was one bail. clapped colour of storm into the aspect of the half-past eight. All the females, as you may ait; nevertheless the breeze was moderate,sappóño, were below and turned in. The "Sirius" and the ship's progress quiet. We were the was on our e-low. Leewardmost of the fret, whose wan shapes wer scarce visible where they hovered like phantompson tra throb of the sun.
About vo bells, however, it came on to fresh on ani, although we could have borne the can- vas we were under, I thought proper to order fore and mizzen tougallant sails to be fucked that we might not outil the Sirius," which was invariably the hindermost ship and the cause of much swerting throughout the feet. I heard the sailors singing out at the gear for ward nd the sail flapping aloft, and some hands lay aft to clew up the mizzon top gollant sail, whilst two young seamen sprang into the shrouds in roll it up.
All went well uft. but forward happened a hitel and a difficulty. Two men had ascended the fore-rigging to fuel the top-galhand, sail, you taking the wither site, one the log-side: when all at ones, instead of mounting, the follow to windward, on elinating over the futlook shrouds till kis head was above the rim of the top. rame down ne rapidly as bis logs and arms cold man- convre his descent, and a moment or two after wards his example was capied by the man in the lee rigging.
"What are you laying down for "I rarel → Epaloft with ge, sing fuel that sail!”
There's a goblin in the fore-top, and d......... if I us to work with her." yelled the fellow on the weatherside, who, as he spoke, reaching the rail, sprang on to the dock.
I un forward: four or five seamen were "A woman below hus som the ghost of the | gathered together, standing by waiting for fur. ther orders. The hy of the yards gave us a young girl we buried this morning."
And it made her cry out?"
sight of fim sky which, though cland-swept, yet
might have been helped by the flashes of the Tonning water, and I could see about us with something of distinctness. I cried mat vo the men who ha cons from aleft:
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Thus sailed the ship, freighted with sin and sorrow, softly and quietly to the music of broken waters and to the murmar of the wind in the rigging like the freshening of the breeze in summer trees, when I heard a lond exclamation leave Captus Sever's lips, and hailing mo by
name, he cries out:
Good Gol! can it be a delusion? Do you so that late on the lee-bow there twist the
Sirius and ourselves 2
Now I well know that we were many leagues from the nearest land. All the ships were in accord; we trimmed sail and navigated as one. Why should our ship the be, of all the flost, alone ont in her rockoning? Therefore I dis credited the evidence of my eyes, when looking. as Captain Sover did, I behaald on the horizon between the Sirins and our ship a vision of white land, pale cliffs amid which could be dis earned an appearance of houses, the lights of a town or village and a rubly glow es of a house
on fine.
The mate, hearing the exptain sing out, puts his pipe into his pocket, and stops on to the poop.
What lands that cries the captain, whese figure was all work with the excitement and amazement he was under.
The mute took a steady look and then ex.
claimed: "Well, I'm figgida saying steal- fast in his mouth when he was ander aus surprise, though it's to be questioned whether healt have explained what he meant by gigged uuloss it had some enleslistic reference to the state of Adam after the Fall.
"It looks like a cloud with prick-holes in it
says I. "But don't you see the white of a town, and the blaze of a haystack, or a church on fire, or something of that sort?" cries the captain.
As we slowly made our way over tlie ses a sail pou the horizon grow in outline, and our spy. glass enabled us to distinguish that sho was a three-sted schonor, that her canvas was un- commonly white, almost dazzling, and that she was heading about north-oast, as if to intercept
When she was within a tile of our ship. the time being thou foar a'clock in the after- noon, who have to and hoisted the American flag inverted as a signal of distress.
Captain Sever exiled to know what was wrong with the schoenor. The man who stood near the tiller answered that he was short of fresh water. and waid be eternally grateful if wo could apply bim with enough to enable him to holl out until he coul! fetch the coast of New Holland, where he hoped to find what he wanted. Thirst is terrible, whether in the desert, on the storile savage coast, or on the ocean. No appant ever-proves more irresistible to the in- manesailor than the cry for water. On receiving the American mustert a report Captain Sever Hang out to him to send a boat. The other re- plied his men were so enfeebled that they could. scarcely crawl uloft. On learning this, and to save further purleying, Captain Sever ordered the main topsail to be laid aback, and directal mo to break out a cask of water, As we had filled new within a few days' sail of our destination, with fresh water at our last port, and were
we might justly reckon that we had plenty to last and to spare. The jelly bout was then get over, and a cask of water carefully hoisted and lowered into her. The captain told me to take charge, bilding me bear a hand or he wond lose sight of his consorts. Four meu got into the boat, and I was pulled away for the Ameri can over a long, deep-drava swell, who surface ran merrily with the ripples of the breeze.
(To be continued).
**SHIMOSE.”
explosive, the correspondent of a Home paper With respect to this mysterious Japanese had a conversation with Dr. Wads, staff surgeon in the Japanese Navy, who was in char, u of the the seriously wounded Russian suitors were provisional field hospital in Chemnipo, to which taken.
Of the whole number of wounded sailors," he said, "we only received the twenty-four worst cases at our hospital, and these had been on beard the Pascal for four days before they were sent to as. fragments of shells or the shrapnel bullets had In most of the cases the already been taken out; but I can nature you that what extracted from the bodies of the wonuded were nothing but fragments of shels aud, to julgo from the size of theas fragments, undoubtedly parts of tigh explosive shells."
Dr. Wain took a pared out of his, baronu, "Here," said he, is a collection of what I get struck part of the rigging, for the fallow explains that it burst socis little distancs up in the air to the left of him.
So she says, sir. he cried wit when she suffused the darkus with a faint radiance tha: for the stars to shine thcliffs, the light out of a single man. The sheil must have
saw it coming. And she cried out again when ale mw it passing where sholios,
"If that's all-well, good-night. Mrs. Champion." says I with a half langh, and i went
on the poop to the captain.
Well," said he, "What is it?"
A ghost, sir," I answered.
Whose ghost?"
The girl you buried his morning, sir". What has it done? What drew you to the helcbway ***
I reported the incident as you hare it. The captain tock a leisurely look round the sea and at the weather, walked to the binnuel- stand to inspect the compass, and after another short survey of his ship with his had upon the hood of the companion-way, disappeared.
The time passud. I walked the dock, lonely. as a man always is at sen, last in thought. bit giving little heed to the ghost. But if I did not. think of the ghost, my thenghis would often numbia to the girl, for I was young-ardent, and sailor. I had boea greatly struck by her beauty, which hud impressed me the more because it had asserted itself in spite of her rags and misery of clothing, and neglected hair. Tanking of hor, I said to myself, “Had she bat lived," a Lely, or a Reynolds, or a Gainsborough hail painted her in the sumptuous flowing attire the artist would have known how to plate her in. what an immortal canvas she would have made She would have shono for over, a fixed star in the heaven of stars of English Beauty."
What day you mean by leaving that sail un- furled, batini its heart out up there ?"
Whatever that country may be," says the rute, we're sailing into it. Don't the ships There's a goblin in the foretop" answered ahead thor see it. Aren't they keeping auy the follow who leak co down on the weather leokont ahoard of those ships? We shall be side in a sturdy, determined voice. Blestashore one on top of another!" if I'm going to work aloft alongside of ghosts!" "Did you see anyiling 18e a goblin, as this mau call, it sail I to the other fellow who had come down.
Why he answered, "I seed something white moving.”
-Where
On the weatherside of the top." "There's nothing" in "rat, fore-top,” says I. Nothing to seave you--who are mou, at least. Two of you in up aloft and furt that sail.”
The captain had taken the spy-glass out of its bracket in the companion-way, and after pointing the telescope at the astonishing apparition of land he cried out in renewed ecstasy of amazement:
You see this one fairly large piece, quito two inchoa long, arrow-shaped, with its greatest width about half an inch. Then there are those two pieces about as big as a hazel ant; but all the others and there are one hundred and twenty of them all told-are quite small, ranging from the size of a full-grown poa to that of a pin-head..
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"Look again at the largest piece! You can shell quite clearly; it is not more than three- perceive the thickness of the outer walls of the eighths of an inch. This shell has been shot akiking of laud, unless it ha men who are not from nothing smaller than a six-inch gun. The be Open at 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday, Dr. Robert H. Hawkes, Mr. F. Ribe
inferenve is that nothing but the best steel can have been used for the walls of the shel a to make it ataud the pressure in the boro of the gun.
Of course it's land! I see houses, and lights, and cliffs. What moro goes to the te be descried all that distance? Why don't the other ships see it? Why are we all stand- ing right into it? Jump for a port-fire.. Mr. la Tonche
beer able to smash a strong steel shelt to such
• Nothing but a high explosive would have
I spoke with temper and determination. The group of fools hung in the wind staring up st the top, just us in a street if you point at the sky, though there be nothing then, you will speedily collect a crowd whom you shull leave staring if you are pleased to sneak off; then I ran for a port-fire, and held the signal, his one says It must be done!" and with a daing like a mountain stream, over the rail. fint roll of his body, as though heading a bourd. The ship turned blue in the light and tuttered ing party, he sprang into the rigging and was and quivered to her topmost heights, like presently followed by another. They were flames of spirits of wine, and when the port watched speechlessly by ns below. They gained he was burnt out, the night, despite its hardan the top and continue their ascent. but I ob of stats, fell down black us ink upon the vision, served that they mount- the top-gallant rig- and hung so for some minutes. ging very warily and nervously, as though they peared about thein, and were ready to hurry down in an instant. They saw no ghost, how- ever, and so get upon the yard and furled the I kept forward whilst the sail was being stowed and listened to the men's talk.
-He also sang out do the man at the wheel to" put his helm up and let the ship go off, which would carry us under the stern of the Comminate fragments. motorn
As I thas thought, a man in the forepart of the ship struck the bell twice and then once, making it three bells, that is half an hour after oue. The peace was so great upon the sea, and so deep was the slumber of the sails to the ten-sil. der, regular breathing of the wind, that the metallic notes. of the bell were reverberatel from on high, and fell mit of the caverns of pallid canvas in short but very ricar, għatly echoes. I hoard just then the marine stationed at the main hatchway cry out suddenly and sharply as though he hailed.
"Did you sue it, sir ?" lau enllod out. "See what ?" I answordil, going to the homi of the steps,
Think I don't know the difference 'tween a goblin and a shadder " said the man who had soon the ghost, I tell yer it was the shape of a woman she seemed to be conted with a kind of seil, white as spray, and when she caught sight of my head shu floatert up to the to gallan | stay and was sinking down it överboard when I
last saw her."
Something white passed between the barri- Thongh openly I should have ridicaled their rade and the bulwark, and when I called it dis- | fears, secretly I must confess I was in gympathy appeared over the side." replied the myrine, in t with the alarin their opinions aroused Three veien whose tremors indicated great agitation | poopis Ind now behvid the sumo ghost, and this and disorder of spirite
concurrence of testimony weighed strongly will For the second time in that watch I passed me as I made my way aft, after wooing all right the barricade, and went to the main hatch, forward. Fonful Captain Sover on the poop. Though, as I have said, the sails plunged most | He listened to me und spokɛ seriously, of the dock in slusdow, the brightness of the moon was upon the sentinel, whose musket gleaned in his hands, whose lutions Frostily glanced on his overcoɛt, and whose fan lay very phim.
What are you saying about something pass ing along and-going over the side ?" said I.
It's as trae, sir, as I stand lure," he kn swered. His eyes looked lurge in the moon- light and his voice shook. "I couldn't believe it at first. I'vo always laughed at such thing. But, I'm a man, and as true as that there up there is the moon, a figure that might have been shaped out of a cloud, the figure of a woman in white, slided along there.
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After a minute or two the signal was answered aboard the Commodore by the burning of u port-bre, and in voice feebly short d through the wind, hailing us, but the ships wore to far apart to allow of speech. Whor wo lud shifted our helm, whilst we were increasing cur paen by making a fair wind of the breeze, and when our sight had recovered its use aftor hoing dazzled by the glare of the port-fire, I looked for the lund, the lights, and the barning loase, and k the apparition had vanished!
I rubbed my eyes and stored again. I could not err in the bearings of the vision. I looked for it in the right place, auil I say it was gone
I called to the captain, "The land has disap- poured, sir."
He looked and answered, Why, so it has!" And again the mute crial out. sturing. Well, I'e figged"
"How truly extraordinary said the captain, coming close to me and breathing deep. In all my sea-going experiences nover did I hear of or meet with the like of this traverso. It must dissolved it."
I operated on twolve sailors in order to extract fragments of shells from their bodies. this one here, and is no ose did I find indica In none of them did I find a pince bigger than
bullets, tions that a man had been wounded by shrapnel
mull bits of flock and bone were scattered about "The blood made the decks slippery, and verywhere. One stumbled over an arm bere or leg there. One saw men with their of their bodies abdomene carried away or with the flesh toru Do you think anything but a high explosive shell could have dous that ?" Dr. Wada was asked if the wounds inflicted by these new high explosivo sheile were very thogs ean ed by the old-fashioned shels or difficult to care, and if they were worse thau
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"Two sailors were standing on the bridge, together with Captain Rudnioff, Count Nirod, and a petty officer. One of the new shells struck the petty officer. Now, these shells are on contact with water, but also with parts of provided with fuses which take effect not only rigging, living men, and even with clothing, wherever there is resistance sufficient to alter their speel ver no ttle. The shell exploded
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"No, no," #k never was suck a thing. That which is once expended returns no mors in its own shape. It is a visible law of nature, and so elementary us to be below discussion. But if the crew have got hold of the notion that the yards and masts of this ship are hauntel, what's to happen if sndton squall should take us and they refuse to go aloft and shorton asil? But I'll see to it in the woming,
Our increased paca had now brought as ou to the lee-quarter of the Sirius; we luffod, and boing within speaking distance, wero hailed.
Ho, the Lady Penrhyn, ahoy sang out a strong voice, but not the Commodore's. "Why did you burn your signal ?"
We saw an apparition of land," cried back Captain Sever; "white cliffs, lights, and a bura- Ing house. It was right ahead. Three of us saw it. Was it not visible to you "
This he did, and worked the business vory of fectively, not by summuoning the men aft and haranguing thein as another might, but by send the mate forward to talk to them. The male believed devoutly in God at the devil, but out- | drunk, sido those mysteries he had no ideas. He found in the boatswain a man after his own heart. This old tarpaulin had so little reverence, that | it was doelared of him he was one of the four sailors who were found after miluight making marry in a vault on strong beer. bread and cheese
No, no," was the reply gratly bawled, as though the speaker thought we were joking or is no land hereabouts. Is that There Captain Sever I'm talking to p
Ay, ay," answers Captain Sovor. Why then, sir," shouted the other, must surely be known to you that we are leagues from the nearest coast!"
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Ds. yes, that's right answers Captain, Bover with seme heat. But three of us saw an apparition which we took to be a coast with the lights of a village, and as the ships were making direct for it I thought it proper to communi cute with you."
Well, there's no laud herabouts," was the answer delivered in a surly voice, and so you had batter shake the wind out of your canvas and resunie your former position.”
It was some deception of moonshine," said I. The ship rings a bit, so do the shadows watch them! Keeping extry in the mindle watch ie drowsy work. Tis all right, my man." "You would have soon her yourself if you had boon looking, sir," he exclaimed.
I returned to the poop, but confess that I and tobacco, with a coffin for a table, apen which found that the temperature of the air had fallen was set a rushlight. The drunken miscreants by several degrees since I left that part of the had opened some of the cellin lids and forced dock. In short, I felt cold and pucasy, and bread and checec into the mouths of the deat, gazad along the dusky, moon-streaked inngth and one of them was so drunk that, when they of ship very nervously, and went to the site were induced to quit the vault, he fell into this and peered over.
mud and was suffocated, and was carried by his mates (our boatswain being one of them) back to the vault to lie with the other gemmon."
I was not present at the discussion between the mate and the boatswain on one side, and the sailors on the other. It happened when I was off duty; but I understood that neither the mato per the boatswain shrank from enforcing His opinion with a handspike, so that the urga ment grow somewhat raw-headed before it was ended, and more than one dispatent carried a black ays or a bruised nose in triumphant proof that he had asserted his opinion. The business ended in the sailors vonsenting to agree that there was no ghost in the ship; providing & gill of rum apiece was served out to them, a demand oxpense if the captain refused: but the captain breakers_aliond!” But those who affirmed did not refuse, and in the first dog watch that that we who saw the land, were in liquor at the evening the ship's company drowned the ghost time. lie. I had not drunk so much as a pauni in a call of strong liquor.
kin of water since the dinner hour: and I will Yet I need not tell you, who are probably ac sweur lut Captain Serer and the mate were as quainted with the character of sailors, that in' sober as I was.
Af four o'clock the mate arrived on deck to relieve me. I told him what hurd passod.
"Pish" says he is very of that a ghost should appear to a marine. Ghosts were in vented for the marines," and so saying he turned the subject by inquiring how the weather had been, observing the lay of the yards, the direction of the wind, and so forth.
Little was said about the ghost the next day, at least in my hearing. Caplain, Sever referred to it once jokingly. I had a short chat with the mutron about it. She was leaving the captain's cabin after making her report: I stopped and asked her who the woman was that had seen the ghost.
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This explosive is a Japanese invention, and appeared to us three men only of all the eom and it is probably not very different from the its compound is a secret. We call it shimose," of souls than allout in that circle of sea, I do not understand, and never shall find antydde or the meliuite; but it is more explosivo Captain Savez was secretly mortified by the
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